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Our legislation touches on all subjects, because our country contains all ingredients.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “Our legislation touches on all subjects, because our country contains all ingredients.”
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Bagehot asserts that British legislation encompasses a wide range of subjects due to the country's diversity.
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They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.
In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.
They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.
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